My second watercolour painting (and the first I feel I can show!)

The webcomic style attempts came - but have yet to evolve into anything worth showing, yet. More on that as it develops.

But I did finish my painting of this photograph and with that I am most pleased. Now my apartment walls are moderately less spartan. I'm not sure precisely which photo I'll try painting next, but something which uses more colours than black, white, blue and a tiny amount of red & yellow....I've got plenty of paint tubes just sitting in the box, plump with potential and maybe just a bit of self-satisfaction at never having had their caps removed. Suggestions?

This Saturday I'll basically be making love to the internet, but without using a computer! Earlier in the day I'll be checking out the abominably named UK Webcomix Thing, partially to get a better idea of what the UK in general is producing (as I'm pretty much only up on the popular North American webcomics) but mostly to briefly meet John Allison of Scarygoround. I really admire the way he manages to deftly avoid the "gag-a-day" feel while producing interesting stories with humour and individual pages which stand up quite nicely all on their own-some. I stayed thrifty this past weekend so as to afford a book or two of his but also to have cash for the second part of my internet-without-a-computer day - the upcoming London SA Goon Meet.

For those of you who don't know what that is, no I am not going to meet up with a bunch of underlings that are regularly beaten up by superheroes and bad-ass cops with a heart of gold. The forums for Something Awful are rather epic in size as well as high in quality and organization. It has thousands of members from all over the world and so, sometimes, if only to get people away from their computers and out under the sun, someone will organize a meeting of various members for the express purpose of fun*. For reasons lost to the sands of time, their members are known as goons. I am one such goon, though not nearly as active as some. I reckon I'll go check this thing out - some of the members are heading to Fabric later, which I'd like to check out as I see flyers for their events all over the show.

*Drinking, dancing, nerdery and whatever else may come.